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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Seems
Sorrow
Would
Infinite
Life
Limits
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Knowledge
Constrain
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Sorrows
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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